[NTFS Permissions Reporter] Display Windows User Access Rights

If you are working as a standalone user on a system running one of
the latest flavors of the Microsoft Windows operating system, you do not
really have much need to assess and verify user permissions on the
system. If a PC is shared by many, and maybe even multiple users with
administration rights, things may change significantly, as access rights
become more difficulty to assess.

The free edition of NTFS Permissions Reporter scans one or multiple of the computer’s hard drives for user permissions, and displays its findings in a report in the end.

NTFS Permissions Reporter Review

When
you first start the program after installation, you are asked to select
at least one drive, or a specific directory, that you want to scan for
user access permissions. It is furthermore possible to exclude
directories from being included in the scan, or activate the show
members of groups option. Both the filter and email report options,
while displayed in the interface, are reserved for users of the standard
version of the application.

A
click on the run report button in the interface scans the selected
directories and drives for user permissions. This may take a while,
depending on the amount of folders that need to be scanned, as well as
the speed of the PC’s hard drive, and other activities.

The
results displays all user groups at the top, highlighting their rights
on the drive or directory. NTFS Permissions Reporter furthermore
displays scan errors in a log at the bottom of the screen. The tree view
allows you to navigate through the folder structure, looking at access
rights of specific folders.

When you select a folder, all user
groups with access to the folder are displayed. You can click on a user
group to see the permissions displayed on the screen in detail.

If
you do not want to work with the tree view, you can switch to table
view mode instead. This lists all scanned directories in a large table,
along with user rights and related information.

You can click on a column header to sort the listing accordingly, for instance by permission, account, or display name.

Reports
can be exported to HTML files only in the free version of the program.
The standard version of NTFS Permissions Reporter includes additional
features, including the option to export to CSV, filters, and full
command line support.

The software can only be installed on the
system if the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 is installed on the system.
Compatibility wise, it is compatible with all versions of Windows from
Windows XP to the very latest.

Closing Words

If you want
to make sure that user access rights on a Windows PC are configured the
way they should be, either to check up on a PC’s security, or to make
sure that users have sufficient rights to do what they are supposed to
do, then NTFS Permissions Reporter is a tool that can aid you in that
task.